Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit
He smiled when we would have expected him to cry. He smiled when we expected him to hate. He smiled when we expected him to revile. Tshenuwani Simon Farisani is a leader in one of the churches in South Africa. As a leader he felt it his duty to take a stand against the official government policy of apartheid. Apartheid means apartness. It's about keeping the races totally apart and separate from each other. Fortunately, the policy of apartheid has just recently been abandoned in South Africa.